Ottawa Senators (44-27-11, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (53-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Raleigh, North Carolina; Saturday, 3 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Hurricanes -151, Senators +126; over\/under is 6<\/p>\n
NHL PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND: Hurricanes host series opener<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Carolina Hurricanes host the Ottawa Senators to start the Eastern Conference first round. The teams meet Sunday for the fourth time this season. The Hurricanes went 2-1 against the Senators in the regular season. In their last regular season matchup on April 5, the Senators won 6-3.<\/p>\n
Carolina has gone 29-10-2 in home games and 53-22-7 overall. The Hurricanes have a 19-4-3 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n
Ottawa has a 21-15-5 record in road games and a 44-27-11 record overall. The Senators have scored 275 total goals (3.4 per game) to rank eighth in the league.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sebastian Aho has scored 27 goals with 53 assists for the Hurricanes. Nikolaj Ehlers has three goals and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tim Stutzle has 34 goals and 48 assists for the Senators. Drake Batherson has four goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hurricanes: 7-2-1, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.6 assists, 3.2 penalties and 6.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Senators: 6-3-1, averaging 3.6 goals, 5.5 assists, 3.2 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hurricanes: None listed.<\/p>\n
Senators: Tyler Kleven: day to day (upper body), Nick Jensen: out for season (lower-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators (44-27-11, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (53-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division) Raleigh, North Carolina;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,37676,1744,5,195,1279,4,292,2805,794,2668,25,1174,43,14,104,681,3820],"class_list":["post-555135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolinahurricanes","tag-data-skrive","tag-drake-batherson","tag-hockey","tag-hurricanes","tag-nc-state-wire","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-nick-jensen","tag-nikolaj-ehlers","tag-north-carolina","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-sebastian-aho","tag-sports","tag-stanley-cup","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-tim-stutzle","tag-tyler-kleven"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116424921408137684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}